The Spook's Tale

Sixty years into his calling, John Gregory looks back on the choice that shaped his life: a young man bound for the priesthood who instead apprenticed himself to a spook and learned to face ghasts, boggarts, and witches in the dark corners of the County. Delaney lets the taciturn mentor of the Wardstone Chronicles tell his own origin, tracing the losses and narrow escapes that hardened him long before Tom Ward came along.